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circle

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 1

gedit embedded terminal

When I run gedit as a user, the embedded terminal is unusuable. I am not shown a prompt and I cannot input any commands. (gnome-terminal works fine). However, when I run gedit in root, the terminal becomes usuable. Is there a solution to get the gedit terminal working as a user?

I have installed gedit through pacman as well as compiling it myself. I have tried to chown as well as chmod (777) to no avail.

sudo chown -R root:users terminal.gedit-plugin terminal.pyc terminal.pyo terminal.py
sudo chmod 777 terminal.gedit-plugin terminal.pyc terminal.pyo terminal.py

Any ideas?
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SemiBz

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2010-01-30

Posts: 80

Re: gedit embedded terminal

You said gnome-terminal works fine so what are you currently trying to use ? Terminator works just fine, too

** IMO, I don't think that it depends on the terminal you are using - all configs are missing anyway.

Last edited by SemiBz (2010-02-23 08:06:03)

perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: gedit embedded terminal

never seen an 'embedded' terminal in 'gedit' ... (which doesn't mean there isn't one!)

munkyeetr

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From: Merritt, BC

Registered: 2008-08-07

Posts: 83

Re: gedit embedded terminal

I don't have gedit to confirm or go through the exact paces, but i believe you have to enable a plugin to use the embedded terminal. Look somewhere in Preferences.

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: gedit embedded terminal

This terminal is part of community/gedit-plugins. And, yes, it works here in my standard user.
But I did install the gedit-plugins only recently. May be any version mismatches?

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PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: gedit embedded terminal

maybe if you start gedit itself from a terminal you will get a meaningful error message

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